The Public Record
I rise today to discuss the Agriculture Act of 2014. That is the new name of the farm bill. After over 3 years of hard work by the House and Senate Agriculture Committees and other interested Members, we are finally nearing the finish line…
Earlier today Senator Graham and Senator McCain spoke to this issue. I could not speak at that time as I had a conflict, but my remarks are pertinent to the issue they spoke about. It has been an agonizing 16 months. But this week, through…
Today I wish to stress the problems and impact the President's legacy program, the Affordable Care Act--known as ObamaCare--is having on Kansans and, for that matter, patients and people all over the country. I know some of this has been…
I was watching the news last night, and many more millions of dollars are now being spent to hire more navigators, so the Senator's constituent should have had a navigator. In many cases they want navigators, and now they are being hired…
My wife is much more adept at the social media capability, and so it was up to her. I thought we were confirmed, only to find out almost before the deadline--it was midnight, and there was a desperate attempt on the part of my staff and…
As the Senator knows, Senators are under that obligation--and their staffs. The committee staff is different, the leadership staff is different, and as the Senator pointed out, the executive is different. What is that all about? It should…
There is a good reason for that. We both came to the House at the same time. We were sorry to lose the Senator to the Senate. I truly appreciate what the Senator has said. It reflects conversations we both have had to try to educate, to…
These were called lemon plans, shoddy plans, substandard plans, plans that were denigrated even though the families involved had a plan they liked. I am sure the same is true in Indiana as it is in Kansas. More people have lost their…
I wish to take a short time here to discuss a situation which I think is gaining some attention in the actual news media on a continuing basis. But with the Affordable Care Act and what we are doing or not doing here on the floor of the…
I rise to address the nomination of Cornelia Pillard for the DC Circuit. It appears to me the environment in which we are discussing these nominations is a good example of the new rules of the Senate. We are already getting a taste of the…
When the President said if you like your doctor, you can keep him, period, that isn't really what he meant. Really he meant, if you like your plan, you can keep it--semicolon--if I like it. He really meant: If you like your doctor, you can…
If I could respond to the distinguished Senator. We had a Roberts-Stenholm amendment at that point while the Republicans were in the minority. Charlie Stenholm was a Democrat. As we went in he whispered: You might want to make this the…